Online Counselling Across Alberta
Professional therapy for teens, adults, couples, and families so you don’t have to face it alone.
Have You Been Struggling with Your Mental Health?
Some days, you hold it together. Other days, it feels like everything could fall apart at once.
You’re trying to manage work, relationships, and responsibilities, but underneath it all…you’re running on empty. Maybe your mind won’t stop racing, your patience is thin, or your motivation is gone. You might notice tension in your body, disrupted sleep, or that you’ve lost interest in things that used to bring joy. Even simple tasks can start to feel impossible.
When emotional pain or stress lingers, it can begin to affect everything; your focus, your health, your relationships, and your sense of self. That’s where counselling comes in.
At The Mental Health Clinic, our Alberta-licensed therapists provide evidence-based treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, and other emotional concerns. We focus on helping you feel better, not just talk about what’s wrong.
Our online therapy sessions make professional support accessible from anywhere in Alberta from Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, to Fort McMurray, and beyond. You can get real help, from real clinicians, right from home.
Find out how therapy can calm your system, lift your mood, and help you start functioning again.
What Counselling Really Does
Counselling is more than venting; it’s a structured psychological treatment that guides you through a process of exploring, learning, and change. It’s a space to understand what’s driving your symptoms and to actively treat them with approaches proven to work.
Therapy focuses on reducing the symptoms interfering with your daily life while helping you rebuild clarity, confidence, and emotional stability.
Through evidence-based methods, counselling helps you:
Reduce anxiety and panic by retraining how your brain and body respond to stress
Lift depressive symptoms by re-engaging motivation, balanced thinking, and daily structure
Stabilize emotions so you can think clearly and make grounded choices
Repair relationships by improving communication and conflict resolution
Recover from trauma by processing painful memories safely and lessening their impact on daily life
Our therapists don’t just offer encouragement; they deliver personalized treatment plans using approaches like CBT, DBT, EMDR, ACT, EFT, and more. Each plan is shaped around your specific concerns, symptoms, goals, and comfort level.
A counsellor listens deeply, helps you uncover patterns in your thoughts and emotions, and provides practical tools to help you move forward.
Most sessions follow three natural stages:
Exploring the presenting concern or problem: Understanding what’s happening, where it comes from, and how it impacts your life.
Creating relief in the moment: Using grounding, regulation, or reframing techniques to reduce immediate distress and help you feel more stable.
Building lasting change: Developing insight, new coping skills, and long-term strategies to prevent old patterns from resurfacing.
Counselling is where emotional pain becomes something you can understand, manage, and heal from step by step.
Who Is Counselling For?
You don’t have to be in crisis to reach out for counselling. Many people start therapy when life begins to feel heavier than usual… when stress, sadness, or conflict start to interfere with daily life, or when it feels like you’ve tried everything and nothing’s helping anymore.
Counselling can help if you find yourself:
Overwhelmed by anxiety or stress, constantly tense or unable to relax
Feeling low or disconnected, as though nothing brings joy or energy
Struggling with relationships, communication, or emotional distance
Facing major change, such as a breakup, loss, move, or career transition
Recovering from trauma, still triggered by memories or events from the past
Trying to manage everything, but running on empty
At The Mental Health Clinic, our therapists support people from every walk of life across Alberta from busy professionals to parents, students, and couples trying to reconnect.
We work with:
Teens navigating school pressure, friendships, or identity questions
Adults facing anxiety, burnout, or workplace challenges
Couples working through conflict, communication issues, or trust concerns
Families adjusting to change, parenting challenges, or blended dynamics
And that’s only the beginning.
Counselling can support you through any emotional, behavioural, or relational struggle whether you can clearly name what’s wrong or just know something doesn’t feel right.
If what you’re experiencing isn’t listed here, it doesn’t mean you’re in the wrong place. Therapy is designed to meet you exactly where you are and help you find your way forward.
What Counselling Can Help With
Every person’s story is different, but most of us reach a point where coping alone stops working. Therapy gives you the structure, guidance, and tools to manage symptoms and strengthen resilience so life feels more steady and manageable again.
Emotional Health and Well-Being
When your emotions feel unpredictable or too intense, counselling helps calm your nervous system and retrain how your mind responds to stress.
Together, you’ll learn practical ways to manage anxiety, lift your mood, and find relief from constant worry, irritability, or overwhelm. Clients often notice they can think more clearly, sleep better, and regain energy for the things that matter.
Relationships and Connection
Arguments that repeat, communication that breaks down, or emotional distance that leaves you feeling unseen, these are all areas where therapy helps. In sessions, you’ll develop stronger listening and communication skills, learn to express needs without defensiveness, and rebuild trust in your closest relationships. Whether it’s couples counselling, family therapy, or boundary-setting in friendships, our focus is helping you connect in ways that feel supportive and safe.
Stress, Burnout, and Work-Life Pressure
Modern life rarely slows down. When deadlines, caregiving, or expectations stack up, stress can turn into exhaustion or shutdown. Counselling helps you identify early signs of burnout, rebalance priorities, and set healthier boundaries so your mental and physical health can recover. You’ll learn strategies to protect your energy and prevent burnout from becoming your “new normal.”
Grief, Loss, and Trauma
Grief and trauma change the way we experience the world. You may feel numb, stuck in memories, or suddenly overwhelmed by emotions that seem unpredictable. Through evidence-based treatments like EMDR, EFT, or trauma-informed CBT, therapy helps you process those experiences safely, reducing distress while honouring what you’ve been through. Healing doesn’t erase pain; it helps you carry it with more strength and peace.
Personal Growth and Identity
Counselling isn’t only for problems, it’s also for growth. You might want to explore self-confidence, purpose, or identity questions, or simply understand yourself better. Therapy can help you clarify values, navigate transitions, and make choices that align with who you want to become.
Common Concerns Our Alberta Therapists Address
Adjustments
Anger Management
Anxiety & Panic
Career
Communication
Cultural Issues
Depression
Eating Concerns
Emotion Regulation
Grief and loss
Identity
Parenting
Phobias
Relationships
Self-esteem
Separation & Divorce
Stress
Family Conflicts
Trauma
And more…
Whatever you’re facing, whether it’s clearly defined or hard to name, counselling offers relief, perspective, and lasting tools for change. You don’t have to keep holding it all together on your own.
What Happens in a Session?
Starting counselling can feel like a big step, and it’s normal to wonder what it will be like. When you start counselling, you’re not just signing up for someone to listen; you’re beginning a structured process designed to help you move forward.
1. Exploring the Presenting Concern or Problem
Your first few sessions focus on understanding what’s happening and why. You and your therapist will talk about what brought you here, how your symptoms show up, and how they affect your daily life. This exploration isn’t about judgement or “fixing” you; it’s about identifying patterns and triggers so your therapist can create a treatment plan that fits you. Together, you’ll define clear goals; things like “I want to feel less anxious at work,” or “I want to stop avoiding conversations that matter.” This foundation builds the roadmap for everything that follows.
2. Creating Relief in the Moment
Counselling isn’t just insight, it’s also practical support. Once your therapist understands your core concerns, you’ll begin working on tools to calm your system and reduce distress right away. You’ll learn techniques for grounding, emotion regulation, or cognitive reframing that can ease symptoms like racing thoughts, panic, irritability, or emotional shutdown. These skills bring stability and confidence early on so you leave sessions with something that makes a tangible difference in your daily life.
3. Building Lasting Change
The final stage focuses on long-term growth. With safety and stability in place, therapy shifts toward deeper work, understanding the roots of patterns, healing old wounds, and strengthening the habits that support emotional resilience. You’ll explore new ways of thinking, relating, and coping that help you sustain progress outside of sessions. By the end, clients often describe feeling lighter, more present, and better equipped to handle whatever life brings next.
Every person’s process is different. Some find relief after a few sessions; others continue longer-term to deepen self-understanding and maintain growth. Your therapist will move at your pace, adjusting treatment along the way so you always feel supported and in control of your journey.
No two people experience mental-health challenges in the same way and no single approach works for everyone. That’s why our Alberta-licensed therapists draw from a range of evidence-based therapies, selecting methods that best match your symptoms, goals, and personality. Our goal is always the same: help you feel better in the short term, and create lasting emotional change over time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): ACT helps you notice unhelpful thoughts without getting pulled into them. By focusing on mindfulness and personal values, you’ll learn to respond to life’s stressors with flexibility instead of avoidance thereby building emotional strength and clarity.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT): CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, emotions, and actions. It’s one of the most researched forms of treatment for anxiety, depression, and stress. You’ll identify negative thinking patterns, challenge them with realistic alternatives, and develop healthier daily habits that support mood stability.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT): Originally developed for intense emotions, DBT teaches four key skill areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. It helps you manage big feelings without shutting down or reacting impulsively, improving both self-control and relationships.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT): EFT helps you understand and process emotions rather than suppress them. By learning to identify what your feelings are trying to communicate, you can transform emotional pain into clarity, empathy, and deeper connection with both yourself and others.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): EMDR is a structured, trauma-focused therapy that helps your brain safely reprocess distressing memories. It reduces the emotional intensity of traumatic events, often decreasing flashbacks, nightmares, and body-based anxiety responses. Clients frequently describe EMDR as life-changing for trauma, phobias, and unresolved grief.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Grounded in decades of research, this method teaches couples practical ways to de-escalate conflict, communicate effectively, and rebuild emotional trust. It’s especially helpful for improving intimacy, teamwork, and resilience during stressful times.
Internal Family Systems (IFS): IFS helps you explore different “parts” of yourself (the protector, the critic, the inner child) with compassion instead of judgement. You’ll learn how these parts developed and how to bring them into balance, leading to greater self-understanding and emotional peace.
Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT): Rather than analyzing every problem, SFT highlights what’s already working. Together, you’ll identify small, achievable steps that move you closer to your goals and build confidence through progress.
Integrative Approaches: Many clients benefit from a blend of approaches. Our therapists integrate multiple methods always through a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive lens to create a personalized plan that fits your pace and comfort level. Every technique we use is evidence-based, compassionate, and adapted to your unique story.
At The Mental Health Clinic, therapy isn’t about labels or quick fixes; it’s about finding the right treatment process for you.
Whether you need practical tools for anxiety, trauma recovery, relationship repair, or personal growth, your therapist will tailor sessions to deliver meaningful, measurable results.
Therapeutic Approaches We Use
The Benefits of Counselling
For many people, one of the greatest benefits of counselling is finally understanding why they feel the way they do. Having a safe and confidential space to share your thoughts, emotions, and experiences with a trained professional can ease the weight of carrying those struggles alone.
A counsellor offers more than just a listening ear; they bring compassion, perspective, and evidence-based knowledge to help you make sense of what you’re going through. Over time, clients often gain new insights into their symptoms and patterns, along with practical coping strategies they can apply in daily life. These tools make it easier to manage stress, regulate emotions, and navigate relationships with greater confidence.
Counselling can also deepen self-awareness. As you explore your values, beliefs, and behaviours, you may discover a clearer sense of direction and stronger decision-making skills. This growth can lead to more resilience in the face of challenges and a renewed sense of self-empowerment.
At The Mental Health Clinic, we believe that prioritizing your mental health is a brave and important step. With online counselling available across Alberta; from Calgary to Edmonton, Red Deer to Fort McMurray, and beyond, support is only a call or click away. When you’re ready to take that next step, our Alberta-based therapists are here to guide you through it with compassion, professionalism, and care.
You don’t have to face this alone anymore, professional support is one click away
Why Choose The Mental Health Clinic?
When you’re deciding where to begin counselling, it’s important to know you’re in safe and capable hands. At The Mental Health Clinic, every therapist is licensed in Alberta and committed to providing care that’s genuine, professional and deeply human.
Our team draws on a range of evidence-based approaches, including CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, and more. These methods are proven to help people manage stress, navigate relationships, and cope with challenges in ways that are practical and meaningful. Sessions aren’t one-size-fits-all. We tailor the approach to fit your needs and comfort level.
Accessibility is also at the heart of our work. Whether you live in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Fort McMurray, or a smaller community in Alberta, our online and phone options ensure that support is never out of reach.
We also understand that taking the first step can feel overwhelming, which is why we offer a free 20-minute consultation. This gives you the chance to meet a therapist, ask questions, and get a feel for whether it’s the right fit without any pressure.
For many clients, it’s reassuring to know that sessions are covered by most insurance providers. Combined with our inclusive and non-judgmental approach, we strive to make counselling a safe space for teens, adults, couples, and families from all walks of life.
Meet Our Therapists
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AMY
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DANIEL
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KAREN
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SAMANTHA
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